LINDSEY Smith had an inkling champion Hong Kong jockey Douglas Whyte would click with Scales Of Justice and that was proved correct when they won the Railway Stakes at Ascot.

Smith believes the pair can again lead all the way and make it back-to-back Group 1 wins in Saturday’s Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot.

When Scale Of Justice’s regular jockey Paul Harvey was suspended for 26 meetings on November 13, Smith called on the 13-time Hong Kong premiership-winning jockey as he believed Whyte’s style would suit the horse.

“We gave him a try, got him on and they just gelled. I think it made a real difference. He simply let him stride out and the horse enjoyed it and his action was perfect. So I’m hoping why not again,” Smith said.

Smith said Whyte would employ similar tactics on Saturday but if another runner took them on they would let him go.

“I would think any horse which does that won’t be able to win as they would be going too fast if they’re in front of him,” he said.

Smith has won two Kingston Town Classic’s previously with Old Comrade in 2000 and 20001.

Smith also had great success with Plastered who was also a star in this period and he won the 2004 Victoria Derby.

Smith’s career though hit a hurdle when he split with Perth’s leading owner Bob Peters and at one stage the Casaurina-based trainer said he had three horses in his care.

“It’s not an industry where it’s easy to find new owners and the horses I had were slow ones,” he said.

Three years ago Smith with the backing of Boomer Bloodstock decided he needed to be proactive and went to the yearling sales throughout Australia buying 25 horses.

One of those was Scales Of Justice, who he paid $180,000 at the Melbourne Inglis Premier sale in 2014.

Smith is hoping to campaign Scales Of Justice in Melbourne and said if he ran first or second in the Kingston Town Classic he would be given the chance to emulate Old Comrade again by trying to win the Australian Cup.

Old Comrade won the Australian Cup in 2002.

Scales Of Justice is a $4.80 chance with TAB fixed odds behind Perfect Reflection at $4.

Darren Weir is hoping for his first ever Perth winner with Stratum Star in the Kingston Town Classic.

He said he had settled in well in the three weeks he had been over in West Australia,

He also said barrier one would make a big difference.

media_cameraScales Of Justice is a $4.80 chance with TAB fixed odds behind Perfect Reflection at $4.

KINGSTON TOWN CLASSIC

Group 1 1800m, Ascot 8pm

$4 Perfect Reflection

$4.80 Scales Of Justice

$5 Kawi

$10 Tradsman

$12 Stratum Star, Mackintosh

$14 Good Project, Vanbrugh

$15 Disposition

$21 He Or She

$41 Ihtsahymn, Heart Starter, Neverland

$51 Bass Strait

$101 Dubai Escapade, Tick Tick Bloom

Visiting owner: ‘I hope I don’t jinx Lindsey’

AS Scales Of Justice attempts to take the next step towards becoming Western Australia’s latest pin-up galloper on Saturday, Queensland-based part-owner Bill Andrews is merely hoping his presence at Ascot doesn’t jinx the gelding.

Andrews missed Scale Of Justice’s runaway Group 1 Railway Stakes win last month, but boarded a plane bound for Perth on Friday to be on course for the Kingston Town Classic.

“I’ve had a lot of horses over the years and have all the usual hard luck stories with what might have been, but to actually be in one that is now a Group 1 winner is very exciting,” Andrews said.

Andrews thanks Boomer Bloodstock’s Craig Rounsefell for landing him his 10 per cent share in Scales Of Justice, who has won seven from 13 for Lindsey Smith in the west.

Andrews was selling horses at the Melbourne Inglis Premier Sale and met trainer Lindsey Smith through Rounsefell, who found a Not A Single Doubt yearling for Smith.

“They asked Andrews if he wanted a share and he said “why not?”

“Lindsey is one of the funniest blokes around and is great company over a few drinks, but he can train too,” he said.

“I don’t bother Lindsey too much, but in the couple of times I’ve spoken to him since the Railway, he said he’s a long way from getting to the bottom of (Scales Of Justice) yet, which is pretty exciting.”